4–5 Jun 2026
University of Geneva
Europe/Zurich timezone

DESI DR2 spectroscopic systematic error assessment

4 Jun 2026, 11:45
15m
Sciences II Auditorium A100 (University of Geneva)

Sciences II Auditorium A100

University of Geneva

Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30

Speaker

Shengyu HE (EPFL)

Description

DESI DR2 delivers over 30 million redshifts from the first three years of the main survey, enabling high-precision large-scale structure measurements. In this talk, I will present an assessment of spectroscopic systematics in DR2, with a focus on redshift uncertainties and catastrophic redshift errors. Using repeated observations of BGS, LRG, ELG, and QSO targets, we empirically characterize redshift-error distributions and build models for their impact on clustering and cosmological inference.

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